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Joe Strummer
Highest Rated: 100% Candy Mountain (1987)
Lowest Rated: 30% Straight to Hell (1987)
Birthday: Aug 21, 1952
Birthplace: Ankara, Turkey
Founding member, lead singer and key lyricist for seminal political punk rock group The Clash. A gifted songwriter (particularly in tandem with The Clash's Mick Jones), Strummer moved from subway busker to pub-rocker (e.g. his first group The 101'ers), and like so many others of his generation, discovered punk rock after seeing The Sex Pistols. He immediately formed The Clash, and within a year the group had carved out its place as "the only band that matters," a quote referring to their seemingly concrete political commitment.After a couple of critically lauded albums (especially 1979's "London Calling"), the group broke up by 1983. Following the group's disbandment, Strummer turned to film in the late '80s, providing scores for a couple of Alex Cox films, as well as acting. Although he had earlier appeared in a quasi-documentary on The Clash ("Rude Boy" 1980), and took a lead role in Cox's very unserious romp "Straight to Hell" (1987), it was his performance in Jim Jarmusch's "Mystery Train" (1989) which marked his dramatic acting debut.
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
100% |
|
White Riot | Unknown (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Straight to Hell Returns | Simms (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strummerville | Unknown (Character) | - | 2010 |
89% |
|
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten | Unknown (Character) | $248.2K | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Let's Rock Again! |
Self, Producer |
- | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Doctor Chance | Vince Traylor (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
|
I Hired a Contract Killer | Guitar Player & Singer (Character) | - | 1990 |
89% |
|
Mystery Train | Johnny aka Elvis (Character) | - | 1989 |
44% |
|
Walker | Original Music | $216.1K | 1987 |
30% |
|
Straight to Hell | Simms (Character) | - | 1987 |
100% |
|
Candy Mountain | Mario (Character) | - | 1987 |
89% |
|
Sid & Nancy | Original Music | $2.7M | 1986 |
TV
Credit | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
80% | 87% | South Park | Himself (Guest Voice) | 1998 |